The Golden Watch Of Hypnosis - Chapter 19
Tenshi looked at the sloshed Nero and grinned without any shred of pity.
He had heard much more sadder stories than this, however, the thing that struck him the most was that the guy in front of him had Erectional Dysfunction.
How pitiful
“Say, why would your wife leave for your driver? Couldn’t she just cheat on you secretly?”
“I mean, why would she leave her life of comfort? ”
“*Hick*! ”
“Oh I Uh *hick* I mistakenly said that.”
“I lost my fortune first then my wife”
“Oh! ”
Nero stopped drinking and dryly licked his mouth.
“After that I became riddled with debts and whatnot”
“I became penniless”
Nero gritted his teeth angrily.
“After that, did you know what happened?!!! ”
“No? ”
“That bitch dared to come visit me and gave me some money! ”
“She said she ‘pitied’ me! ”
“That she was sorry for leaving me! ”
“I slapped her! ”
“I broke her teeth! ”
“I Disfugured her! ”
“*Sob*! ”
Nero broke down crying, his sobs silencing the bar as some people turned around to look at him.
Tenshi waved his hands in the air, seeing his hands, the people smiled and returned to their businesses.
“So what happened after that? ”
Tenshi asked with a soothing smile on his face, his hands rubbing the shoulders of Nero.
Nero wiped his red eyes and once again downed a glass of alcohol.
“That bitch’s father filed a case against me, and voila! I lost my lawyer’s license and was jailed for two years! ”
Nero roared as anger overtook his eyes.
“But I ain’t the type to sit down and let someone walk over me! ”
A cold glint flashed in Nero’s eyes.
“With my former connections, I bailed out some prominent gangsters and earned recognition among the underworld! ”
” In return, they used their connections to free me! ”
” ”
“Among them, was my boss, Amano”
“He said that I had the wits, charm and strength to be a prominent member of his gang! ”
“He will make sure that I am rich and have my revenge! ”
“He said that he’ll also make sure that I am retuned my license of lawyer. In return ”
“Sign a slave contract ”
A slightly sigh escaped Nero’s mouth as he downed another drink.
“I don’t regret what I did”
“I regained my wealth and my license but I couldn’t regain my youth. ”
“Why?.. Why did I waste my youth? ”
“Why did I waste half of my life earning money and fame for such a woman? Why did I do all of that for a woman that abandoned me when I losed my money? ”
“Even though I have money and power now I can’t get back the countless hours I lost. I’m too old now. ”
“I’m almost forty!”
“My life’s a train wreck! ”
Nero once again buried his face in the bar’s desk, sloshed as far as a normal human could.
Tenshi nodded, feeling a bit of pity for the old man.
“Have you never tried to love again? ”
Tenshi asked, slightly curious about the man’s life.
“Oh, I did marry someone else ”
“A prostitute, that’s who! ”
“Haha!”
Tenshi wryly laughed.
“Since no one in the world would like a man with a small penis that has Erectional Dysfunction. I figured that if I stuff someone’s mouth with money, they would smile at me. ”
“Do you know sir what’s the most good thing about prostitutes? ”
“No? ”
“If you feed them enough money, even if they hate you from deep within, they’ll smile at you. ”
“They’ll feign an act to care about you, they’ll do everything you want. ”
“That’s why I married one. ”
“I pay her I pay her twice the amount anyone pays for one night with her.”
“Even though I know her care and gentleness towards me Is fake, I’m content as long as she stays like that.”
“Y’know, love ain’t real. ”
“Nothing more than chemical reactions ”
Nero said while looking at the roof.
“Sometimes, I dream about a girl loving me selflessly. ”
“I hear her say ‘don’t worry, I’m here’ as she hugs me warmly ugh.. ”
“Her warm gaze, ethereal face ”
“For the first time in my life, I felt regret that I can’t enter my dreams. ”
“I regret that there’s no such girl in real life! ”
“I regret that she’s just a dream. ”
“A human that exists only in my dreams. ”
Warm tears slid down Nero’s face as he thought about his dreams.
“Since people can’t love me, I’ll pay them to love me!”
Nero laughed madly as his tears went into his mouth.
Nero slowly calmed down and once again gulped another glass of alcohol.
“Nero. would you ever abandon someone because they couldn’t satisfy your sexual needs? ”
“Never! ”
Nero yelled.
Nero calmed down and looked towards Tenshi with a grateful gaze.
“Sir, I’m very grateful to you! ”
Tenshi smiled.
“Why Nero? ”
“You didn’t let my boss suffer the same trauma that I suffered through! Thank you sir! ”
Nero looked back at the lovebirds that were chatting while blushing, the gaze of an old man in his eyes.
“Haha, it’s my duty. He’s one of my lackies after all. ”
Tenshi chuckled.
“Sir, I don’t know why, but whenever I see these two lovebirds, my heart hurts. It feels as if I’m missing a part of my life. ”
Nero chuckled, his gaze filled with loneliness.
“Sir? ”
“Yes? ”
“What do you think about love? ”
“Love? ”
“I feel that love is just an illusion. ”
“Is love truly an illusion sir? ”
“Very much so, you know.
Everything around you is an illusion in fact. For example, if you are one light year away from the earth and you see the earth, you see events from one year ago. So what does that mean? Every event is so unreal that our perception of stuff mattering is almost comical.
One more thing is what love are we talking about here? Is it love towards the immortal stuff like music, science and art? or are we talking boy-girl love here?
First, let me come to the latter part
Human beings are fickle.
It is said in Bhagavad Gita
‘canchalam hi manah Krishna
pramathi balavad drdham
tasyaham nigraham manye
vayor iva su-duskaram’
Translation – Oh Krishna, the mind is fickle, turbulent , obstinate and restless. To control it seems more difficult than controlling a full blown storm
Arjun mentions a problem that we have all faced at some point in our lives. We just cannot control our mind. One minute, I’m thinking of focussing on work and the next minute, here I am, in this bar answering random questions. How many days have you procrastinated stuff? As Arjun mentioned, its easier to control a storm than to control the human brain.
This is the fickle mind that we are dealing with. It is just impossible to create a “real” bond between one such human mind and another….especially when one has choices in choosing another mind – that is, your love towards your mother can be true because , one can have only one mother…thus in fact your love is towards maternity than towards the mind of the mother itself…no one would love their mother if the mother wasn’t kind and loving….would you love your mother if she had harassed you verbally and physically as a kid? No…because, you love the concept of maternity..which is care…and not the human being, that is the mother itself.
Now coming to lovers, a person has more than one choice for another human being as a “lover”. Now he/she categorizes a lot before choosing one ….and that narrows it down to around a million rather than a billion choices. Now can we trust our fickle mind to bond “really” with another such fickle mind? The answer is no, the bond is not real. It is an illusion.
This illusion is created because we want it to be created. As things stand, no “normal” human being will like to admit that deep inside they are lonely. How much ever you claim to love a person, all the person can do is stand by and watch during some of your sufferings. Sure you’ll claim that him/her “being there for you” is a great sign….but no, its not a great sign…its a sign of weakness…if your mind is strong enough, you won’t need anyone to “be there for you”
Popularisation of idiotic things like mocking the guy who eats alone or mocking a guy who is single and forty years old in our sex-minded society is what has led to the popularisation of the concept of love. People want to believe that they have found their true lover….so that they aren’t “forty, single and eating alone”…
To sum it up – Love towards abstract things is ironically real…mainly because abstract things are a perception of one’s own mind…and hence your mind is totally attached to it.
Love towards “real” things is ironically an illusion…mainly because both of your minds are fickle ”
Tenshi eyes turned into those of an old man, his mouth uttering words of wisdom.
Nero nodded and smiled.
“That’s why you’re my boss’s boss! ”
“Heh. ”
“Nihilism, eh? ”
Nero nodded and smiled brightly.
“Thanks sir! ”
“You’re welcome. ”
Tenshi charmingly smiled as he saw the flushed face of Amano.
“Boss! I’m sorry, I can’t accompany you ”
“Nah, it’s okay, go to a love hotel or something and enjoy.”
Tenshi lightly touched Amano’s cheeks with his palm.
The Ruriko standing behind Amano fidgeted and grabbed the hem of Amano’s shirt.
Amano scratched the area behind his ears as he blushed.
Seeing the baka-couple, Tenshi chuckled while Neri grinned.
A thought came to Tenshi’s mind, perhaps, Amano had told Ruriko about him.
Otherwise, ruriko might’ve jumped on him if she didn’t know that he was Amano’s boss.
After all, he kicked her ‘darling’ on his ass.
Tenshi waved and left the couple to their own devices, he along with Nero reached one of the corners of the mansion.
“Say, where’s the mayor? ”
“Didn’t Amano tell me that he’s going to be here? ”
Tenshi grinned.
Nero looked at the crowd for a while and eventually pointed at a direction.
“There. He’s there. ”
Tenshi looked at the direction Nero pointed to and smirked with delight.
He wouldn’t spare his enemies, he wouldn’t spare even their family members.
He had one motto, pull out the entire tree along with it’s roots.
Amongst the place where Nero pointed at, a mustached man was standing along with a woman.
No, not a woman, it was a girl.
Tenshi was disappointed, it would’ve been better if his wife was here.
He looked at the girl and smiled.
She wasn’t bad looking.
I owe you guys one chapter.